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"Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say."
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music."
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"When you here a conjunto and you hear another conjunto, you think it's like a continuation of the first. It's all the same, same, same. There's no variety, just the same music."
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"Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say."
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"Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows."
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"When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba."
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"I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life."
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"As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored."
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"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."
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"Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture."
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"I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes."
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